tschakane

Updated: July 18, 2026

Here were Kirghiz, with flat faces like the Kalmucks, dressed in coats of mail: some carried the lance, bows, and arrows of Asiatic manufacture; some the saber, a matchlock gun, and the "tschakane," a little short-handled ax, the wounds from which invariably prove fatal.

Jules Verne - Michael Strogoff : Or, The Courier of the Czar